Sharmila set to merge her party with Congress

Hyderabad: YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) President YS Sharmila is set to merge her party with the Congress on January 4.

After a crucial meeting with the party leaders here on Tuesday, she told media persons that everything will be clear in one or two days. However, other YSRTP leaders confirmed that she will join the Congress.

Sharmila will reach New Delhi on Wednesday and will join the Congress party in the presence of top leadership the next day. YSRTP General Secretary T. Devender Reddy said Sharmila is likely to get a key post in the Congress.

The Congress leadership may give her the task of reviving the party in Andhra Pradesh, where the party was virtually wiped out due to the public anger over bifurcation of the state in 2014. It failed to win a single Assembly or Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh in 2014 and 2019 and its vote share shrunk to less than two per cent.